Nuns had a holy cross to bear
Recently I received a most delightful letter from Vincent Rayne, chairman of the parish council of St Thomas’ church in Mossel Bay, explaining just why the Holy...
Recently I received a most delightful letter from Vincent Rayne, chairman of the parish council of St Thomas’ church in Mossel Bay, explaining just why the Holy...
I was reading the review of Cardinal John Henry Newman’s new biography, Newman’s Unquiet Grave: The Reluctant Saint by John Cornwell, in the London Book Review. The...
From MA Gila 1994 – The end of apartheid. The eyes of the world were focussed on South Africa. For years we had all been warned to...
The Catholic Church’s opposition to abortion is immutable, but it also finds expression in different, complementary ways. This week’s first feature article in a series of four...
BY COLLEEN CONSTABLE In the modern world women have to advance and adapt prayer techniques. What worked once may need adaptation now. We need to be open...
I am delighted to see that in spite of the best efforts of sports administrators to put a halt to the practice, more and more Catholics are...
Over a century ago, missionaries arrived in different parts of Africa. They found no hospitals or schools as they had known them in their own countries. In...
From Attie Schlebusch, Camperdown, KZN: In his letter “How Mass language changed” (June 30), John Lee is correct in stating that the early liturgy was celebrated quite...
For South Africans, it is a happy circumstance that the centenary of the birth of Mother Teresa of Calcutta on August 26 should coincide with the tour...
by Toni Rowland · Published August 15, 2010 · Last modified September 17, 2017
The feast of Our Lady’s Assumption on August 15, as the patronal feast of South Africa is an important feature in Church life that perhaps is underutilised....
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